Also, Fox Sports announced a five-year media rights deal that will put the United SportsCar Racing and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge on Fox’s networks (read: Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2 and digital distribution) from the start of the series in 2014 through 2018. The 2014 USCR season schedule has not been announced.

The American Le Mans Series, which shares the weekend with Grand-Am as the Sunday headliner, also got onto the track Friday for practice. Its qualifying sessions are set for Saturday.